You need Copy2PC to run it.
Neil Morrison
email:morrison_at_t-iii.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey l Kaneko [SMTP:jeff.kaneko_at_juno.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 6:43 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: Central Point Option floppy controller
>
> I have one of these. Does anyone know how it's hooked up?
> Anybody got the S/W for this thing? Supposedly, you can
> write any format on the planet with this thing. I've
> heard that it won't run i faster, newer machines. Does
> anyone know what the limitations are?
>
> Jeff
>
> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 01:32:56 -0700 Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
> writes:
> > Given the current discussion, has anyone looked the Central Point
> > "copy
> > card" floppy controller over?
> >
> > I am looking at one of mine right now, and to my limited "PC" eyes
> > it seems
> > fairly normal. Barely the length of a short ISA slot, with fingers
> > on a
> > edge connector as well as a set of header pins for the floppy drive
> > cable.
> > It has one main chip:
> >
> > Transcopy 3 c CPS
> > TC19GO32AP-0036
> > Japan 8819EA! the ! could be just a vertical line.
> >
> > Its about 8051 sized, maybe 60 pins. There is a 48 khz crystal, and
> > a 1987
> > copyright. Two sets of jumpers seem to select between PC/XT and
> > AT/Compaq,
> > another set looks like DMA1 or DMA2.
> >
> > Remaining chips are a LS245 to the ISA bus, a 7406 by the PC/XT
> > jumpers,
> > and a 8812S UM8326B next to the crystal.
> >
> > This is one of the cards I check every old PC I see for.
> >
> >
>
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